Policy

Subaltern Women and the Islamic Feminist Turn

It's time to rethink the representation and rights of women in Bangladesh. Should elite secular feminism neglect to recognize and engage with Islamic feminist frameworks, it risks irrelevance or worse.

The Road to Net-Zero

The important global choice is whether to focus first on the most efficient policies to tackle the world’s most urgent problems of disease, hunger, and poverty, or on the climate concerns of the world’s rich. The world’s poor need billions for health, nutrition and growth, not trillions for inefficient gestures.

Rethinking Bangladesh’s Rohingya Response

Bangladesh’s model of Rohingya containment is not a temporary holding pattern -- it is politically and economically rewarding for the state. International actors must stop sustaining it.

Is the Bangladesh Public Service Commission Dead?

An institution can perish through through abdication and silence while the house burns. By every meaningful measure -- the ability to reassure the public, to clarify recruitment, to protect fairness -- the PSC has ceased to function.

The Stairs to Justice

When the trial process itself becomes a form of punishment it undermines the very foundation of a just legal system

An Updated Playbook for Trump's America

How to turn the tariff threat into a strategic opportunity through a bold US-Bangladesh partnership agenda

Opening Doors, Unlocking Potential

Bangladesh has a large, talented youth population eager to study and contribute abroad. The US should double its student intake from Bangladesh to tap into this potential, boost its economy, and strengthen long-term partnerships.

How To Reach Consensus On Reform

The only meaningful item remaining on the reform agenda is whether an Upper House should be based on PR or not. Everything else can be sorted out without difficulty. We are closer to consensus than you think.

Many Faces of the Digital Divide: Why Access Alone Is Not Enough

Edtech and e-learning are not a silver bullet. They are just one piece of a complex and many-layered puzzle that we need to solve to deliver education to the masses.

I have got a job, but …

Unlocking opportunity by tackling Bangladesh’s employment challenges

The reform options

Assessing various reform ideas that have been floated

The fundamental problem

Extreme centralization of power made Bangladesh vulnerable to despotism